London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan says he will build 6,000 “affordable” rental homes by 2030 - with their rents capped. Khan, standing...
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![UWOs not being used in fight against dirty money, says Labour](/upload/images/Locations/London-WestEnd-400x310.jpg)
The most recent Mayor's Question Time meeting revealed that there have been no Unexplained Wealth Orders (UWOs) secured to stem the...
01 April 2022
From: Breaking News
![TfL funding fiasco – huge numbers of new homes at risk, says Assembly member](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/Labour-logo400x310.png)
Labour’s London Assembly planning spokesperson has claimed that much-needed new homes will remain unbuilt and potential jobs unfilled without long-term investment...
04 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Development – will tall towers now be a thing of the past?](/upload/images/Locations/London400x310.jpg)
For quite a number of years, the sky has literally been the limit for new residential, commercial and tourism-based towers –...
12 November 2021
From: Breaking News
![Royal Docks regen – iconic area celebrates its centenary and looks to the future](/img/default/pit.png)
One of London’s most characterful areas celebrated its 100th birthday on July 8. The Royal Docks, one of the UK’s major...
14 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![Mayoral race 2021 – who are the candidates for London Mayor?](/img/default/pit.png)
Early next month, Londoners will head to the polls to elect the capital’s next Mayor, in a vote that has been...
07 April 2021
From: Breaking News
![Investors – should you consider Hounslow?](/img/default/pit.png)
It’s strategically located for easy access to London Heathrow Terminals, is close to a number of the stations on the incoming...
21 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Capital regeneration - former London hotel and pub set to become 514 flats](/img/default/pit.png)
The former Master Brewer Hotel in Hillingdon, which has been left vacant since 2012, has taken a step closer to being...
09 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Sadiq Khan – what has his record been on housing?](/img/default/pit.png)
While the coronavirus outbreak has led to the postponement of all local and mayoral elections in England for a year to...
20 March 2020
From: Breaking News
![Sadiq Khan makes rent controls a key part of his pitch for re-election](/img/default/pit.png)
The thorny issue of rent controls has reared its head again as the campaigns for the London mayoral election 2020 start...
06 March 2020
From: Breaking News
![Airbnb manager enters administration – where did it go wrong for Hostmaker?](/img/default/pit.png)
Hostmaker, the London-based short-let property management company, has entered administration, just a week after speculation of its possible insolvency was revealed in the Sunday...
04 March 2020
From: Breaking News
![Regeneration: former biscuit factory to be transformed into 1,500 homes](/img/default/pit.png)
Under plans approved this week by Jules Pipe, the Deputy Mayor for Planning, Regeneration and Skills, the site of a former...
28 February 2020
From: Breaking News
![Are the capital’s empty homes ripe for investment?](/img/default/pit.png)
It was revealed last week that nearly 25,000 homes in London are being left unoccupied, according to the most recent government...
24 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![Rent controls cause damage to tenants, new research argues](/img/default/pit.png)
New research has claimed that rent controls hurt tenants by drying up the supply of rental homes and in some cases...
04 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Regeneration of major cities needs to leave a positive legacy](/img/default/pit.png)
The global head of Lendlease has called for an end to what he has described as an often unhealthy and politically...
07 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![London regeneration – Elephant & Castle: from shabby to chic?](/img/default/pit.png)
In the latest part of our series focusing on London’s regeneration hotspots, Property Investor Today zones in on the ongoing transformation...
25 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![TfL announces new guidelines to curb short-let rental ads](/img/default/pit.png)
Labour’s London Assembly spokesperson for housing has welcomed new advertising guidelines published by Transport for London (TfL) banning adverts on its...
23 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![London regeneration: Old Oak Common, a scheme in trouble?](/img/default/pit.png)
In the fourth part of this series, Property Investor Today explores the regeneration works at Old Oak Common – a key...
11 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![Part-time property rentals in the capital are thriving – a good thing or damaging?](/img/default/pit.png)
An Airbnb management company has claimed that part-time property rentals are booming in London. Airsorted, which was founded in February 2015 by...
30 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![Are fully-affordable towers really the future for London?](/img/default/pit.png)
Following the recent turning in for planning approval of Ealing’s first 100% affordable residential tower, the Mayor of London has been...
09 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![Mayor urged to ban Tube adverts encouraging people to break short-let laws](/img/default/pit.png)
The Mayor of London has been urged to ban adverts on the Tube that encourage the breaking of short-term lettings law. Tom...
24 May 2019
From: Breaking News
![New guide for London’s leaseholders launched by Sadiq Khan](/img/default/pit.png)
A new guide designed to help London leaseholders has been released by Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, with the Mayor also...
27 February 2019
From: Breaking News
![Investment advice - where are the latest developments in London?](/img/default/pit.png)
Mayor Sadiq Khan has recently set out a London Plan for the next twenty years, outlining several developments that will completely...
30 January 2019
From: Breaking News
![Speed up transparency of foreign property ownership, says Mayor](/img/default/pit.png)
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has called on the government to speed up plans for a new public register of the...
02 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Mayor of London urged to speed up housebuilding process](/img/default/pit.png)
The mayor of London’s plan to build an additional 50,000 affordable homes across the capital’s 33 local authority districts over the...
20 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![Crossrail 2 ‘vital’ to tackling London’s housing crisis, say experts](/img/default/pit.png)
Leading housebuilders and housing associations, including British Land and the Berkeley Group, are urging the government to back Crossrail 2 as...
05 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Plans approved for 10,000 new homes in Barking](/img/default/pit.png)
The London mayor Sadiq Khan has paved the way for up to 10,000 new homes to be built in Barking after...
09 September 2016
From: Breaking News
![Mayor of London pledges to restrict office-to-resi conversions](/img/default/pit.png)
London mayor Sadiq Khan has vowed to make it significantly harder for property investors to convert small office spaces to residential...
09 June 2016
From: Breaking News
![Who will fix London’s housing crisis?](/img/default/pit.png)
With just hours to go until voting for the London mayoral election closes, housing remains a key issue with all the leading...